On Oct. 24, 2024, Pope Francis published his fourth encyclical entitled in Latin “Dilexit Nos,” which translated into English is, “He loved us.” (This quote come from the eighth chapter of St.
Paul’s Letter to the Romans). In his new encyclical, Pope Francis calls all Catholics to rediscover the sacred heart of Jesus in order to radiate God's love in our society. The pope says, “All of us need to rediscover the importance of the heart in order to resist a world unconcerned about the deeper meaning of our lives.
” The encyclical is a reflection on the need for Christians to make our hearts available to contemplate and receive God's love. The word of God “speaks to us of the heart as a core that lies hidden beneath all outward appearances, even beneath the superficial thoughts that can lead us astray,” he explains. He cites the example of the emotion of the disciples encountering the risen Christ on the road to Emmaus: “Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road?” (Luke 24:32) “The heart has been ignored in anthropology, and the great philosophical tradition finds it a foreign notion, preferring other concepts such as reason, will, or freedom,” says the pontiff, who comes from a Latin America that has always kept a critical eye on the excess of rationalism present in western thought.
“It is only by starting from the heart that our communities will succeed in uniting and reconciling differing minds and wills, so that t.
